WSO2 invites you to contribute by downloading the source code from the GitHub source control system, building the product and making changes, and then committing your changes back to the source repository. The following sections describe this process:

Building from source is optional. Users who do not want to make changes to the source code can simply download the binary distribution of the product and install it.

Downloading the source

The following instructions explain how you can download the source code for WSO2 Application Server 5.3.0 release. The complete source code used for this product consists of a number of Git repositories, which are listed below.

Follow the steps given below to download each of the above repositories for AS 5.3.0.

Clone the relevant Git repository to a folder of your choice. The location of the extracted source is referred to as <gitrepo_SOURCE_HOME>. For example, to clone the Git repository for Carbon4 Kernel, use the following command: